Thread 719932561

/v/ is an Allosaurus board.

>>719932561 (OP)
>jurassic park "AAA I'M FUCKING CRAZY" psychotic monster designs
pass

Man, I remember modding JPOG to have all the dig sites on my PC. But one major problem with that, and even the JWE games is that storms are the only thing you have to actually worry about and they are more of an annoyance than anything.

I remember seeing a Jurassic Park arcade game when I was 8, and I remember watching my friend shoot a giant alligator in it. It was badass.

>>719932561 (OP)
I miss the artstyle and colors from JPOG
In Jurassic World every single dinosaur is gray

>>719932902
That's the The Lost World arcade game, the boss of the second area was a Deinosuchus.

>>719933059
Yup that's it

>>719932970
All pre JW dinosaur designs whether they be from illustrations, concept art or even fan art were miles better than what came after. Rexy for example compared to the Baryonx or Indo designs looks jarring. Like two completely different franchises. The Carnotaur's look pretty good in FK but then in Rebirth you get the shitty "realistic" Spinosaurus design compared to 3's which in spite of the movie's flaws, nailed the dinosaurs.

>>719933059
My friend and I didn't pay attention to the name. We just called it a "giant alligator".

>>719933354
World's problem was making everything crocodilian, with osteoderms on the back and croc elements in the heads and faces. They finally eased up on it in Dominion except for the Giganotosaurus.
>rebirth spinosaurus
And then they went back to full crocodile with its head, the rest of the body may be paleo-accurate by that noggin sure isn't. Also the Spino that wakes up on the beach quadrupedally knnuckle-walks into the water, something that was suggested and dropped back in 2014.

Wild boars would make the dinosaurs go extinct in less than a century

>>719933773
>breed and train raptors to eat only wild pork
>release them into the wilderness
>sit back and watch the wold boar populations finally get under control

>>719933853
Raptors would breed out of control. Black bears and wolves would find it hard to compete or kill with them. This was an issue on both the movie and books Site B islands, stating that the overpopulation and aggression of the raptors is whats causing so many problems.

>>719933986
What part of "breed and train raptors to eat only wild pork" didn't you understand? The bears and wolves aren't doing anything to cull the pig population, they're eating everything else.

>>719933853
>boars still vastly outbreed raptors
>feed on their vulnerable eggs
>quickly devastates the raptor population
Boars are a nightmare for nearly anything that lays their eggs on the ground. It's other mammals that keep their populations in check, not reptiles.

>>719934126
You’re never gonna train a predatory species to eat only one specific kind of prey, thats impossible. Hell the movies say its impossible to train them to a certain degree as they betray and attack Chris Pratt halfway into the movie.

I'm really happy all seven hybrids are returning to Evolution 3 as part of the base game. I might be the only person who likes all of them, but I'm proud to be their biggest fan, especially the Ankylodocus and Spinoraptor.

>>719932561 (OP)
>/v/ is a T Rex board
Ftfy

>>719934163
That's why we keep breeding raptors in captivity in large raptor farms.

>>719934218
That was only because they were confused about the Indominus rex and the mercenaries opened fire when they were looking to Owen for guidance. They went right back to his side later.

>>719932561 (OP)
>4m long
lol

>>719934335
So your plan to eradicate boars from north america is to breed a predator that can't outcompete the animal you're trying to get rid of and operate at a loss?

Fire this nigga

>>719934271
>trannysaurus

>>719934467
The raptors will be eating the boars, how are the board outcompeting them?

>>719934526
Go to bed, Horner.

>>719932561 (OP)
/v/ is a Dinosaur Hunting Board.

Allosaurus or Nothingosaurus I always say

>>719934603
Ignoring the fact that boars would easily replace any lost to predation thanks to their incredibly fast breeding cycle and how quickly they reach sexual maturity, the number of raptor eggs lost to boars would far exceed the number of boars lost to raptors. If anything, the real predator in this scenario is the boar.

You would have more success with big cats and wolves than dinosaurs.

>>719932561 (OP)
In this household, Al means Albertosaurus, end of story

>>719935075
Christ, are you deliberately ignoring parts of my posts? WE are supplying the raptors from farms, waves of adults released into the wild. It doesn't matter if their attempts to breed in the wild are eaten by the boars, we're still pumping them out until a number is reached or the boars are culled.

>landniggers are still trying to push their "legs" faggotry
lmaoing@ur lives rn
oceanGODS OWN this planet

>>719935231
Didn't they recently shrink him down to the size of a large tuna?

>>719935383
Congrats, Allo, you succeeded in breaking all of your upper teeth on its ribs and spine and likely shattered your lower jaw as well. Seriously, what dumbass dreamed up the hatchet skull thing?

>>719935495
>>719935538
>>719935594
I love the design, but why did they make it the same size as the Indominus rex? That's another thing the movies do that irritates me, they make most of the theropods too goddamned big like they think everything needs to be the size of Tyrannosaurus.

>>719932561 (OP)

Allosaurus, and to a secondary extent Ceratosaurus, are such great "cool monster figurine" design. I love them. I think they're better than the T-rex. The fact that they dug up all these fossils from the Late Jurassic and due to the number & frequency of Allosauruses clumped together, and the amount of bite & scar marks on a massive range of herbivores, implies they were both pack animals and completely ravenous cunts that attacked everyone, makes them even more endearing.

>>719934163
>>719933773

I don't know where you're getting this idea from: dinosaurs were all r-selected breeders, matured rapidly, lived in an ecological period with insane levels of violence, and were all patently familiar with both defending themselves and their eggs.

>>719935667
Would

>>719935667
Allosaurus used to be the movie dinosaur at one point. 1,000,000 BC, Gwangi, Lost World, a whole bunch of other movies. I think even at one point the original KK from 1933 said that Kong fought an Allosaurus.

>>719935767
>Gwangi

>>719935767
The Meat-Eater was a T. rex, but they put three fingers on it because "it looked better". Same deal with the Tyrannosaurus in "Rite of Spring".

>>719935890
Harryhausen really liked bullying elephants in his movies.

>>719935495
>>719935538
The sad thing is, Battle at Big Rock was far more interesting than the last two Jurassic World movies.

>>719935795
>>719935841
The Red Dead 2 DLC I always hoped for.

>>719936024
Probably got PRÖÖÖHHHed by one.

>>719933354
Exactly. Something about every dinosaur design before World actually feels like it belongs to the same franchise, like there was always a "Jurassic' element to the design.
Look at the TLW Giga compared to the Dominion Giga. One looks like a colorful addition to Jurassic Park's theropod roster, and the other looks like it was designed by some Redditor that fell for the "JP dinos don't look and act like REAL animals" meme and made it based off that notion of what they "think" a Jurassic Park dinosaur looks like.

>>719936109
>and the other looks like it was designed by some Redditor that fell for the "JP dinos don't look and act like REAL animals" meme and made it based off that notion of what they "think" a Jurassic Park dinosaur looks like.
The Dominion Giganotosaurus doesn't look anything like the real animal, same as most of the Park dinosaurs.

>>719932561 (OP)
I will always be Giganotosaurus chad

>>719936172
Yes, I'm saying they made the most unrealistic retarded looking thing in a half-assed effort to emulate that "Jurassic" element from older designs.

>>719932561 (OP)
>Dinosaur that literally looks like a cross between a T Rex and a Velociraptor
>Herbivore
LMAOOOOOOOO THIS NIGGA EATIN CONIFERS

>>719936275
Actually *snort snort* Giganotosaurus didn't live at the same time as Argentinosaurus, that was Mapusaurus.

>>719936346
Hey, those trees can be dangerous, that's why it has such large sharp claws and teeth.

Wrong, this is a Dennis Nedry board

>>719936580
Delete this

>>719936580
The novel version of this scene is metal as fuck

lazy bastards

>>719934526
>Trannysa-ACK

>>719936351
weren't they both late cretaceous?
Is this the point where I point out how you are okay with a British man on a jeep in cretaceous period but draw the line with an Giganotosaurus

>>719936904
How did someone acquire this footage?

>>719936849
Giganotosaurus is slightly older than Mapusaurus, but yeah they were in the Late Cretaceous, 99 to 93 million years ago.

>>719937012
Were they trying to save the Atrociraptors, or lure them into a big free-for-all and hope they all killed each other?

>>719934960
underrated post

>>719934603
nigga how big do you think raptors are boars will fuck em up

>>719936904
>>719937012
Awful

>>719936172
Dominion Giga's behavior is probably the closest thing to an actual animal in the whole series. But design wise its too much like the Indominus (yeah I know its part Giga but still) and doesn't stand out on its own enough. I think Dominion would've benefitted from not having a dino villain and just having Dodgson be the sole villain with no largescale final battle.

>check compound fracture
>last dev update was on March 13
kill me

>>719936512
>underappreciated programmer who got fucked over by big corporation
>also loves his women, his junkfood
Yeah hes pretty much /ourguy/.

ENTER

Really wish dinosaur games actually had a wider appeal beyond the connection to Jurassic Park. Doesn't even need to be scientifically accurate, just let me live out my boyhood fantasy of being a giant tyrannosaurus that battles rival dinosaurs and giant monsters and eats people.

>>719937912
As sad as it sounds the overall popularity of dinosaurs is dependent on Hollywood. Which was jumpstarted in the gaming era by JP. Both the Turok games and Dino Crisis owe their games existence to JP. The current lineup of JP movies being shit means that nobody cares to cash in on the trend.

>>719934712
cant believe this series is still going strong

>>719936818
>Convert 12375 kg to tons
>13.6 tons
Fucking hell, back when I was a kid T Rex was only half that size.

>>719937668
I find it funny how they made this scene feel like a shonen fight

>>719938008
You know, it's weird how Jurassic Park has had a monopoly on dinosaur movies since the 90s. How come there is nobody else trying to kickstart a dino franchise? Primitive War seems to be a recent exception.

>>719938356
The Land Before Time has sixteen movies stretching from 1988 to 2016 along with a TV series.

>>719938356
there is also Primal which is an animated series but quite watchable

>>719938356
Theres not too much in the way of dinosaur books or TV that hasn't been done already. Even Dinotopia got a TV series with the dude from Prison Break. Lost World, King Kong, Journey to the Center of the Earth, they've all been done before. Someone would have to create something entirely new and thats a gamble that doesn't pay off now. I'd love to one day see a dinosaur fantasy series or one that invokes the same sense of adventure early pulp did.

>>719938695
Like that movie 65m where time travelers land on some alternate prehistoric Earth and fight a gigantic Postosuchus as the final boss.

>>719938163
rex being the giga nigga of laramida makes sense, iirc there weren't any other larger carnivores at the time there
it also checks out with the defensive arms race the herbivores were also doing, be it armour, spikes, or sheer size, t-rex needed to be able to fuck their shit up and walk away to even compete

>>719937362
somehow that and it's prior cartoon are the best things to come out of the world franchise
i could do without the constant bleeding heart 'save da dinos' though, it stats getting annoying when they keep doing it after almost dying the 3rd time

>>719934271
>t.redditsaurus
lol, lmao

>>719935667
H-hey, what's up with those eyes?

>>719939045
cute borgersaurus

Hey guys what's going on in this thread?

>>719939768
take off the gorilla arms and the bulbous forehead and i can kinda see a fucked up t rex in there
not saying it's good, but i think i see the original intent

>>719939709
>this would be 12$ minimum today
We need to go back

>>719932561 (OP)
MESSAGE FROM DR GRANT

>>719940896
The original intent was specifically to cross a T. rex, a Xenomorph, and a Rancor and make a knockoff MUTO. Gareth Edwards stated in an interview he doesn't like dinosaurs, which was why he crated the Distortus rex and Mutadons so he could recapture some of that sweet Godzilla 2014 vibes.

i still hear the albertosaurus in my nightmares

>>719941090
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM

>>719933059
Me and my friends still quote the "Look, Ian and Sarah" from the Carnotaurus level

>>719941084
if he doesn't like dinosaurs then he's worthless as a director for a dinosaur movie
whoever owns the jp license should have even a casual enjoyment of dinosaurs as a requirement to be involved in the project so they don't fuck it up with retard shit like what they've been doing for the past 10 years

>>719941054
soul

>>719941208
"Get away! He's coming!"

>>719934335
You can't even train dogs and cats with their diets. They will eat animals if they have the chance

>>719941272
Not the first time it's happened. The 1998 Tristar Godzilla ended up the way it did because Roland and Emmerich disliked the very idea of Godzilla and just wanted to make another big loud disaster/monster movie.

>>719938785
Easily the coolest dinosaur

>>719941372
yeah, it's pretty obvious at the end that they're ripping off jurassic park and how they just kill godzilla with missiles of all things
then again, i would be pretty pissed if i were involved in that production and saw spielberg rugpull godzilla attacking a city with the trex at the end of tlw, what a petty little jew

>>719938889
>Literally the most invasive species ever
>Incredibly fucking dangerous
>We godda save dem from re-extinction guis :(((((((((
"Life finds a way" btw.

For me it's the JPOG Charcharodontosaurus roar.

>>719932561 (OP)
Nah, /v/ is Kentrosaurus territory

>>719941532
The universal issue of hiring people for a franchise when they lack talent and passion for what they're adapting.

>>719941084
>Gareth Edwards stated in an interview he doesn't like dinosaurs
Who and why the fuck put him in charge?

>>719941471
if any animal has a prophetic name it's t-rex, iconic and fitting before they even really knew what it was
as cool as allosaurus is, it's name doesn't describe how much of a tank they were in life, lots of them took insane beatings and lived long enough to heal all but the one that finally finished the job

>>719941084
>who should we put in charge of that dinosaur movie
>what about that guy in the parking lot yelling about how much he hates dinosaurs?
>yeah that'll do
classic hollywood

So when are we going to revive the dinosaurs huh

My favorite part of World is when Claire said that the world had grown bored of dinosaurs. I find that incredibly hard to believe, zoos and animal parks today are thriving despite everyone having seen and knowing about most if not all the animals in them, parks full of prehistoric animals would rake in billions upon billions for eternity.

>>719938785
how could it find prey if they heard it coming from a mile away

>>719941538
iirc one of the characters starts getting pissed at everyone when they prioritize the dinosaurs over their own safety in one of the later seasons of the first show, she even gets ptsd from all that shit
unfortunately it's one of the two dogshit seasons so any interesting ideas are buried in shitty writing and contrivances

>>719941717
Like all predators it was silent when hunting.

>>719941084
>have a long-running franchise for people who love dinosaurs and want to grin & point at the screen when they see their favourite dinos in motion
>hire a guy who hates dinosaurs
I don't understand this logic

>>719941717
probably didn't make much noise, think of what cassowaries and crocodiles sound like, but way bigger
big fuckers probably had to do ambushes, smaller ones would do traditional chasing, unless they did pack hunting or worked in family groups and did a mix of both

Irl what is your favorite dinosaur? Also i just learned that mosasaurus and other marine reptiles arent actually dinosaurs and classified as "marine reptile"

>>719932561 (OP)
There is a criminal lack of Therizinosauruses in dinosaur media.

>>719932561 (OP)
Wake me up when a good singleplayer dinosaur game comes out lol.

This is one of the concept designs for the Mutatons in Rebirth. Looks rather familiar, doesn't it...

>>719941820
Its a "one for me, one for them" type deal, he makes them a dinosaur movie, they give him the funds for what ever movie he wants to make. Its a gross system that is killing the movie industry.

>>719941867
>Allosaurus

>>719941898
>comes
TotalWar Warhammer 2 or 3 Lizardmen campaing.

>>719941708
I can't remember a single thing said by Claire in World other than having a desire to facefuck Bryce in her business mogul outfit.

>>719941708
I mean I think that just implies that real, living dinosaurs stopped being a huge sensation and became about as mundane as zoo animals
People like going to the zoo and seeing animals in real life but no one really goes "yoooo holy shit we gotta go to the zoo to see some monkeys and penguins and tigers and stuff"

>>719941842
Herbivore: Stegosaurus
Carnivore: Suchomimus

That is correct, their closest relatives are snakes and varanopodes like the Komodo dragon.

>>719941808
anon it weight multiple tons, you can't really be that silent when you make the earth tremble with every step
>>719941835
>cassowaries
they are fast relative to their size, and also relatively light
>crocodiles
are you implying the t-rex just stood still and waited until something walked by?

>>719942016
The earth-trembling thing, like the frog vision, was only for the film. Elephants can move surprising silently because their feet smother objects beneath them and have padding to muffle footfalls, large dinosaurs likely had similar structures. Plus they can, you know, place their foot down gently instead of stomping.

>>719941898
quite the irony that modern (xbox/ps) controllers would be really fitting to control an animal in first person view yet it's never been made a thing

>>719942106
>Elephants can move surprising silently because their feet smother objects beneath them and have padding to muffle footfalls, large dinosaurs likely had similar structures
anon did you ever look at the foot of a bird or lizard? they aren't exactly meat pillows like the elephant's foot

>>719941842
i've always liked ankylosaurs, but that one super preserved borealopelta is cool as fuck and tipped the scale (i know it's a nodosaur but still, close enough)
the marine reptiles of those days are wack, icthyosaurs were fuckhueg in the triassic, potentially bigger than a blue whale huge

>>719941717
ambushing large herbivores or walking after a herd until the old and sick collapse from exhaustion

>>719942016
sound anon, sound
cassowaries make low frequency rumbling sounds and crocs hiss, i imagine the rex would've done something similar
they also almost certainly would've had some padding on their feet to help with the sound of their steps and to help with their weight, being that big is pointless if you can't catch anything to maintain that size

>>719942346
>ambushing large herbivores
would have heard it
>walking after a herd until the old and sick collapse from exhaustion
thanks, that makes sense (and quite gruesome)

>>719942364
>sound anon, sound
oh I was referring to unintentional sounds
also no amount of padding can muffle the thump thump thump
they must have had some trick up their sleeve but the only plausible explanation till now is what that other anon said with chasing the pack until some of them collapsed

>>719942260
Dinosaurs are built differently from both of them, plus no bird or lizard has been the size of a Tyrannosaurus rex.

>>719942346
>walking after a herd until the old and sick collapse from exhaustion
He's just like me fr...

>>719942415
>>719942495
Okay, are you pretending to be retarded for attention, or are you genuinely this stupid?

>>719942564
don't be such an autist

>>719942415
>would have heard it
yes, but triceratops are slow and move in herds
a t-rex could approach from a forest or from behind a hill while the triceratops are at a watering hole and probably corner one before they could all escape

>>719942513
>source: trust me bro

>>719942603
movies make them seem stupid but they must have been a lot smarter than herbivores (shielding sound, memorizing lots of terrain and geography)

>>719942603
trikes might not have moved in very large groups, apparently small family groups were more likely the average most of the year
not saying it would be easy, but a rex or two would have a much better shot at snagging one trike out of 5 over 1 out of 20

>>719942769
iirc there were studies done on the brain cases of rex' and they figured they were at least as smart as corvids, or close to it

Remember that the animals Tyrannosaurus lived with and hunted weren't speed demons, either, which is why they developed herding tactics or weapons and armor for defense. Rex didn't need to run fast to catch prey, especially by using ambush tactics.

>>719936904
>An adult Tyrannosaurus rex had an exceptionally powerful bite, with studies estimating its force at around 35,000 to 57,000 newtons (approximately 7,800 to 12,800 pounds-force) at a single posterior tooth. This bite was strong enough to crush bone and was significantly more powerful than that of other terrestrial animals, enabling it to hunt large prey.

But hey, lets have this thing bite something then slam it into the ground instead.
Same bullshit as the Spinosaurus fight, the Trex has it's fucking neck in THE MOST POWERFUL LAND ANIMAL BITE FORCE and it just kind of shrugs it off and the Trex lets go?
That fight would have been over here with a crushed windpipe and broken neck.

>>719942260
>they aren't exactly meat pillows like the elephant's foot
they're a lot wider and weight is spread over three toes
plus lighter bones than a mammal would at the same size, they were probably pretty quiet

>>719942016
>>719942106
>>719942260
A running T Rex could probably send tremors through the ground, but it would be mostly silent when walking. It had cushioning under its feet.

>>719942516
yes it's a bit ironic

Prehistoric Kingdom?

>>719942963
Ah, but you forget that Spinosaurus was replacing T. rex at the demand of Jack Horner, so Rex's incredible bite meant nothing to Spino' s plot armor.

>>719942963
>m-muh biteforce
Never established in the films.
The films about giant test tube frog monsters that were never paleoaccurate to begin with, by the way.
Don't know why retarded rexfags like you think it was ever anything else but entertainment and continue to get upset over nothing.

>>719943235
>Never established in the films.
It was established in real life you cunt.
>The films about giant test tube frog monsters that were never paleoaccurate to begin with, by the way.
Muh monsters not real dinosaurs
That IS established in the films they use actual dinosaur dna to breed them, but I guess that doesn't make them dinosaurs.

But hey, keep moving those goal posts.
>>719943217
The power of lunchboxes.

>>719943235
A LOT of people think that Tyrannosaurus rex was an immortal juggernaut that crushed and ate everything in its path and was uncontested as the apex monster of the universe, and get extremely upset when you remind them that it was just another animal.

>>719943235
>The films about giant test tube frog monsters that were never paleoaccurate to begin with, by the way.
literally the only time that's used in the story is so they can breed
everything else is portrayed as real, and designed in line with the real paleontological knowledge at the time

>>719943217
>>719943235
It's crazy how Spino went from "T Rex killer" to some kind of weird crocodile duck thingy.

>>719943293
>That IS established in the films they use actual dinosaur dna to breed them, but I guess that doesn't make them dinosaurs.
If you were cloned but they had to stick the DNA of kangaroos, dung beetles, and Miss Piggy into the holes in your genetic code, your clone wouldn't be a human.

>>719943341
Literally noone thinks that you fairy.
That's you making up things in your head to belittle people defending something with facts

>>719943341
No but it's more fun to pretend it is.

>>719935667
>implies they were both pack animals
lmao no it doesn't

>>719943418
Horner wanted something to replace the T. rex and told them to use Spinosaurus, so they designed it to look like a scary supermonster. Granted back then we didn't have much of it, only the sketches of the original fossils and some other little bits. It wasn't until after JPIII that we finally started finding more fossils and more complete ones at that, which was when Spino's look began evolving. Hell, before JPIII it was portrayed as a generic theropod with a sail because we didn't even have any of its skull.

>>719943293
>m-muh real life
Has nothing to do with the films. In the films, the T. rex literally never killed anything in one bite. Blind retards like you throw a tantrum when 3 maintains keeps that consistent.
Stop moving goalposts before I can even get to them and cope harder.

>>719943384
>designed in line with the real paleontological knowledge
For some reason people like to say this but all the inaccuracies in the final designs say otherwise.

>>719943457
Look through the comments of any video of the Rex vs Spino fight on Youtube and get back to me. Look at the comments on the Rexy vs Indominus rex and Rexy vs Giganotosaurus fights videos as well.

>>719943341
>>719943479
A Rex could potentially 1v1 anything barring megasauropods

>>719943554
Why didn't they use giganotosaurus instead? That was discovered back in the 90s and actually had a chance of killing a Tyrannosaurus.

>>719943632
Well yeah, it can fight anything, but whether it wins or not depends on the same factors governing fights between all animals.

>>719942927
>>719942969
>hedgehog looks at that and thinks "my ancestor..." we wuz

>>719943675
Too similar-looking, most likely. Even today there are plenty of people who look at any large theropod and call it a T. rex.

>>719943624
Rex would definitely lose to an Indominus lol. People really seethe at Indominus for some reason. I mean, the thing managed to slaughter an entire herd of sauropods all by itself, and managed to tank and anky tailclub and as well as bullets. It would destroy anything alive today

>>719943771
Rex did lose to Indominus. It had to get saved by a raptor and a mosasaur.

>>719943703
Yeah obviously. A T Rex could kill a mapusaurus, but mapusaurus hunted in packs so a Rex wouldn't really risk it in a hypothetical scenario where they lived together

>>719943740
>new sonic game has time travel
>sonic goes back in time to the age of dinosaurs
>meets one of them and its his great x 100,000 grandfather
>it can also run really fast and do a spinball jump

>>719943157
sure if you like the planet zoo gameplay of building for hours like a redditor in his "man"cave instead of actually interactive and engaging animals and zoos

What's your favorite dinosaur?
Mine's that one with 500 teeth, I can't remember the name.

>>719943989
You don't build the park in other similar games?

>>719944081
Nigersaurus, and it had 5,000 teeth.

>>719944081
THE CHINGER CHANGER

>>719944287
Goofy ah m'fucker ran like naruto

>>719944237
>half the jungle waits for somebody to hunt something so they can fight each other for who steals it
heh

>>719932561 (OP)
Dinosaurs don't look like that

carnosaur bros...

>>719944348
If they didn't want me to have dinner, they wouldn't have killed it for me.

>>719944523
Fuck, a giga could open its mouth as wide as a human is tall.

>>719944523
>even millions of years ago it still comes down to dex vs str
damn

What's the deal with dinosaurs and birds anyways? Is a T Rex related to birds in the same way a Lion is related to a housecat

>>719944705
Gigantosaurus and Trex would never have met.
Gigantosaurus is bullshit anyway only """"two"""" fossils have ever been found with one being a freak Allosaurus and the other a fragment of a jaw (read: one dipshit palaeontologist jizzed his pants and created his super duper OC from a tooth)

>>719944523
Uhm... Rex-bros... This isn't a good look...

>>719945150
it's giganotosaurus, not gigantosaurus

>>719944942
Common ancestors
All cats evolved from the same cat, just variations based on location and hunting/survival requirements change the cats in different ways.

>>719945150
I just realized how many theropods pretty much the same

>>719946028
>pretty much look* the same

What is it about dinosaurs that makes them so appealing to people?

>>719946187
Closest thing we have to real life dragons/monsters, the fact that they're extinct which makes them all the more mysterious.

>>719945331
IIRC Tigers existed during the same time as Smilodon only naturally separated by land masses.

>>719935523
Math nerds who worked out the upper limits of the stresses its jaw could sustain and then misapplied "could" with "was designed to do regularly"

>>719935645
Its hilarious when you take two extremes side by side like how IRL dilophosaurus and ceratosaurus were similarly sized and then you look at their movie counterparts and how one was drastically shrunk while the other was sized up to near rex proportions.

>>719946429
>pic
>shadow of a dude in a suggestive pose in the background

>>719935231
I hate this dumb short design, the weight spread makes no sense. Also everybody draw that tail but they have no fuckin fossil imprint of it. I hate fanficsaurus like this, people follow a consensus of thin fucking air.

>>719935667
>implies they were both pack animals and completely ravenous cunts that attacked everyone, makes them even more endearing.
Pretty sure we've dropped this, sadly. The Morrison formation happens to be centered around a massive pond that came and went seasonally and created abnormal conditions for animal groupings and congested death maps. The allosaurus fossils from that area are mostly just the predators who survived the hardships the most - but turned to cannibalism as the scarcity they helped create ratcheted up. The current model has them as maybe somewhat social and cooperative to an extent.

But the ravenous allosaur thing really is just because of the dire conditions of the region we find them in.

>>719932561 (OP)
Hey OP, or any anon here, do you have of those Operation Genesis pics for all the dinos in the game in such high quality? Google is sadly a pain in this case.

>>719944942
>What's the deal with dinosaurs and birds anyways? Is a T Rex related to birds in the same way a Lion is related to a housecat

A bird is related to a t.rex in the same way a heron is related to an alligator and in a similar way to how all four of them are vaguely related to each other. Birds, dinosaurs, reptiles, are all branches from the group "Archosaur" with dinosaurs and birds (as we know them) having shared a common ancestor that they split from sooner than other reptiles.

If it makes it make more sense: plenty of perfectly "normal" birds lived during dinosaur times that were analogous to modern day birds. It wasn't like the dinosaurs died out and then birds evolved to replace them (though in the absence of dinosaurs a handful of birds in South and Central America did evolve back into theropod-like terrorbirds).

>>719945331
>coolest gimmick gets sawdusted and jobbed out

>open thread
>get a boner
goddamnit

>>719942846
People tend to forget that you have to be pretty damn intelligent to be an apex predator.

Is being able to throw rocks and spears and run on two legs really so cutting edge it allowed our species to effectively assfuck the remainder of the animal kingdom regardless of setting?

Is being able to throw rocks and spears and run on two legs really so cutting edge it allowed our species to effectively assfuck the remainder of the animal kingdom regardless of setting?

>>719946028
>>719946074
Convergent evolution is a bitch

>>719949335
This you?

>>719949405
that's one pretty borgersaurus
>Is being able to throw rocks and spears and run on two legs really so cutting edge it allowed our species to effectively assfuck the remainder of the animal kingdom regardless of setting?
no, they could track animals until they overheated and dropped dead
because humans could sweat and were not furry
throwing stuff and poking stuff was more of a defensive thing (a principle that still survives in the proper use of hand grenades)

>>719941708
The world and rebirth movies have probably the most retarded writing
>Three movies about how the current world should coexist with dinosaurs
>In rebirth they literally say the world is actually not suited for it, 99% of dinosaurs are fucking dead and dinos are límited to the tropics despite Blue having children in Kansas
the only good thing from that slop was Bryce's ass

>>719941708
>parks full of prehistoric animals would rake in billions upon billions for eternity.
somehow you just know that the Chinese are probably working on it as we speak lol

>>719944348
yeah, once the hunter is tired out from the hunt you can take his shit

>>719950210
>one of, if not the, biggest birds is a scavenger
>has huge claws and strong feet just to bully away the hunger
o_o

I mean the hunter
freudian slip